<p>When I went to Princeton, the admissions officer told me that the admissions office recalculates a students GPA to put it on the same scale. I've done some research but I haven't been able to find what scale they recalculate it on and how they recalculate it?</p>
<p>Anyone know?</p>
<p>^ seconded! good question.</p>
<p>it had better not be based merely on the number of APs and IBs, because many good prep schools (mine included) have basically done away with the cookie-cutter AP system in favor of their own curricula. It's hard to quantify the difficulty of different classes :/</p>
<p>i'd assume princeton would do one of these:</p>
<p>(1) 4.0 = A [90-100], 3.0 = B [80-89], 2.0 = C [70-79], and 1.0 = D [60-69], and then the F's</p>
<p>(2) (93-100 = A = 4.0... 90-92 = A- = 3.7... 87-89 = B+ = 3.5... 83-86 = B = 3.3... 80-82 = B- = 3.0, etc...)</p>
<p>some college do the 2nd one (my high school does this one too)</p>
<p>I'd assume princeton would be one of these two above</p>
<p>I've heard Princeton doesn't consider +'s and -'s when recalculating GPA.</p>
<p>then they most likely go on the normal 90-100 = 4.0, 80-89 = 3.0, etc. scale (the first one i listed in my last post)</p>
<p>^ oh, yay , I like that! haha I have 2 93s, I believe, and my school's trying to rob me of my 4.0 :(</p>
<p>really? wow, that's harsh.. at my school a 93 is still an A (90-92 is a 3.7 A- though... luckily my lowest grade in HS has been a 95, so I've never been affected by the grading scale)</p>
<p>a lot of colleges just go by the A = 4, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1 scale.. it's simple</p>
<p>my school seems quite easy now with the 90-100 being an A.
ugh my one B may look bad even though it was an 88!</p>
<p>^ yeah how the heck does that "simple" system work? An 89 is exactly the same, GPA-wise, as an 80? That's just dumb.</p>
<p>i am hoping they would be able to guess your grades from the ones surrounding it. I have gotten Straight A's since freshman year until last year in apushh...ugh horrible class...but i think they could tell that the B isn't going to be low from looking at the rest of my grades on my transcript...im hoping.</p>
<p>man they are gonna hate my school...</p>
<p>80%=A
90%=A+ </p>
<p>lol... awkward scale... we are commonwealth with british so that's why ontario, canada does it like that...</p>
<p>I've got an A average, on a scale of F-D-C-B-A-A+
Very few C's, a couple of 'em B's, a load of A's and quite some A+'s.</p>
<p>Will my A average equal a ~4.0 Princeton GPA?</p>
<p>no, it won't. princeton recently deflated their grades. even at harvard, the last student to have a complete 4.0 gpa graduated 5 or 6 years ago apparently.</p>
<p>If you've ever made below an A in your academic career, it's not a 4.0.</p>
<p>Of course, if it was the AVERAGE of all your grades it would count, but it doesn't. I had a 4.0 (meaning straight 94s and above) through every class until this year...AP Physics...gah.</p>
<p>So anyway that automatically demotes me to a 3.999999...</p>
<p>Does Princeton recalculate GPA for international students too?</p>
<p>^yeah, i'd like to know that too</p>
<p>haha.
I feel you right there.
I'm in the same situation.</p>
<p>do you know how my school calculates the GPA!!!???? 90-94 is a 3.5-3.7,and 95-98 is a 3.8 to 3.9, and 99+is a 4.0! btw that 's for the weighted average but that's still harsh...</p>
<p>^ that's a stupid scale.. why does your school do that?</p>
<p>i dont know,maybe the class size affects a little??? there are approximate 970 people in my class.</p>